On 4/5/03 4:41 PM InfoXp wrote: >Hi happy users of PowerMail! >Could someone explain to me the REAL interest of filtering spam? >I get my usual load of garbage, say between 10 to 100/day, but it's so >easy to delete it that I don't see the interest to automatically do it. >And, of course, I don't worry about real messages that could have been >killed by a spam sniper in my system. >All the best - X(p)
When there is a handful of valid message among 100 or so spams, it's easy to miss one. It's happened to me more than once before I got SpamSieve. Even though my particular setup miscalls 10% of the garbage good, I'm much less likely to make that mistake. Of course, I still eyeball the spam list before trashing it, but I haven't seen a good message there for weeks. I also hang on to my mail trash for 9 days, just in case. In other words, I have a small number of false negatives but rare false positives. I'm sure I could fiddle with SpamSieve to make it better, but I'm not inclined to make that effort now. Len ------ Leonard Morgenstern [EMAIL PROTECTED] People like me like me. --An example of why direct computer translation won't ever work.
